Help to fix a bent tip

[bbulat]

Hi all,

I received a seax the other day and the very tip has been bent sideways. No more than a millimeter or two from the tip. Any suggestions on how to fix without ruining the finish or breaking the tip off?

Thanks

 

[sams]

wow, what a bummer! I never "bend" a tip back into shape. If it isn't too drastic, I use a ball peen hammer and "tap" the tip back into position. I do this over the back part of my vise. You need to do it over a semi large piece of steel and go light and slow and watch your progress. I'm sure you can do it.

 

[tyr_shadowblade]

When you opened the package, the new Seax had a bent tip? Or did you accidentally drop it tip-first on a hard surface?

 

[Jaiofspam]

i would just file down the tip to true again
was this purchased second hand, direct from yangdu or did it happen after receiving?

 

[bbulat]

No, I didn't drop it. It came off the DOD so I figured it was a blem. It doesn't really bother me, I was just wondering if it was something I could fix.

 

[Kismet]

Ask Yangdu @ himimp@AOL.com

You can probable gently tap it back. Dunno about seaxes, they may not be hardened all the way to the tip. Kamis are used to making a sweet spot on khuks.

Ask. Can't hurt.

 

[007 Agent ZZero]

Seaxs are fully hardened. Use the hammer trick VERY CAREFULLY. The steel is 5160 though so it's fairly ductile. To preserve the finish you need to put a medium between the blade and everything else. Newspaper works fairly well.

 

[007 Agent ZZero]

From the looks of it though you might just want to sharpen it out. My seax came with a working edge but no real sharpness. If you have a vice you can set the blade and use a sharpening steel to work it back to true. Or just grind it off on a waterstone.

 

[lefthandblack]

From the looks of it though you might just want to sharpen it out. My seax came with a working edge but no real sharpness. If you have a vice you can set the blade and use a sharpening steel to work it back to true. Or just grind it off on a waterstone.

Yup, that looks pretty mild. You should just be able to use a coarse stone or even a file to grind it down into a usable tip. Should take you less than five minutes.

 

[Dave Rishar]

Both of my seaxes were differentially hardened. The tip is probably flexible enough to tap back into place.

To be honest, if it had happened to be I'd just file it off like Jai said.

 

[Nasty]

Any of the above should take care of it just fine...after all, it's what they did in the old days. Bent is always better than broken.

 

[markksr]

Seaxs are fully hardened. The steel is 5160 though so it's fairly ductile.

Both of my seaxes were differentially hardened.

Just out of curiosity,which is it,fully hardened or differentially harened?

There seems to be a good bit of conflicting opinions/facts floating around here lately regarding HI products(not just in this thread).

 

[Dave Rishar]

Just out of curiosity,which is it?

 

[Allan Molstad]

If it's just that little bend at the tip?
Then I would just sharpen it off with a stone or on my sander.

The tip looks a lot like what happends when a knife gets dropped and so it's a common thing to happen on a lot of knives.
I know when I am just about done with the final buffing of a knife that if the buffer grabs the blade out of my hands there is a 99% chance that it will always fly into the cement floor point first.
So I have had to fix such tip bends myself from time to time.

 

[markksr]

Thanks Dave but I meant which is it between the two statements I quoted.

 

[Dave Rishar]

I meant which is it between the two statements I quoted.

That's what I was attempting to display. Take another look at the edge. The etch shows a hamon.

 

[markksr]

So it does.
Good answer.
I guess a picture is worth a thousand words.
Thanks.